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Everyone is curious about the ff7 storyline. I am curious about Aerith's past relationship with Zack and in my investigation toward the truth I have discovered a quit interesting love fued in Aerith's life!

The subject of Aerith's love life is in great debate among those who play Final Fantasy VII.
Prior to the events at Nibelheim, Aerith was apparently romantically involved with Zack, although she claims it wasn't serious, and comments that he probably just found somebody else. At this point, it has been at least five years since she heard from him. Zack, for his part, only mentions Aerith in passing, never actually saying her name; he merely comments that he has "a place" he can go in Midgar.[12]
During the course of the game, it is mentioned that one of the Turks, Tseng, was interested in Aerith. When the playable party enters Gongaga for the first time, Reno and Rude are seen talking about who they like. While Rude admits that he likes Tifa, Reno mentions that Tseng likes "that Ancient," meaning Aerith.[13] While they did have a past history together, nothing in-game was offered to directly support it as being a close relationship (there's a translation error that suggests that they've known each other since both were young; in actuality, the statement Aerith makes on this matter is that she has known Tseng since she was young[14]). Arguably, Tseng's relationship with Aerith was more antagonistic than romantic, but Aerith still appears to harbor some slight feelings for Tseng, whether romantic or not, as evidenced by her words in the Temple of the Ancients after they find him wounded by Sephiroth.
After Aerith and Cloud meet during the game, she appears to be very flirtatious with him. Among the fandom, it is often said that she was only attracted to Cloud because of Zack, as she directly mentions that it bothered her how much they were alike and that she thought she was seeing Zack's personality in Cloud.[15]
In Benny Matsuyama's novel Maiden Who Travels The Planet, it has been revealed that she loved Cloud more than Zack and thought that she loved him for who he truly was, as said early in the novella[16]:
"At first, she thought he somehow had some similarities to her first love. Even so, his looks, voice and personality weren't similar, and he also made her think of him as a mysterious person... But it soon didn't matter. She loved him much more than her first love."
Later in the work, it is revealed that most of what she saw in Cloud had actually been emulated from Zack[17]:
"But she couldn't figure out the truth. Her thoughts just went in circles. Aerith delved into her memories again. Memories that showed Cloud's individuality. The way he walked. She remembered all his actions one by one...
Most of those thoughts merged into the Sea of Mako and awakened a character. The character recognized the image she recalled and "he" woke up."
Aerith doesn't learn who Cloud really is until some time later when Tifa helps Cloud reconstruct his memories. It is then that she knows him for who he truly is. Further, despite not having known the real him before, she continues to love him once he's regained his memories and she's come to know him for who he really is[18]:
"She was happy. She was happy that she now knew the real Cloud and was able to watch over him, even though it was just for a short while."

Definately reply and let me know how you all feel about this info.

Not a problem, everyone would like to learn something like this, so I'm glad I could help.

surprised wow, your just now figuring this out???? i had this all figured out by the time i beat the game for the 3rd time lol. and then reading " the maiden who wanders the planet" just confermed everything i found out. man, either your slow or just didn't realy know at the time. i've known all that for a loooooong time whee

A lot of people didn't know. Me, for example.

wow i like it. its good i had most of it figered out just not quite prosesed right. it's realy good

Wow. I for one didn't know that. But that's because when I was a kid I only made it so far in the game while visiting my cousin & now that I have the game work doesn't leave much gaming time. So thanks for posting this. I'm going to pay closer attention this time around while playing the game.

SPOILERS!!!

Hmmm...I find it hard to believe that you figured this out just from the game. As mentioned in the first post, Alot of the information wasn't mentioned in the game. Either that, or it was so well hidden that we skipped over it.

I did have a lot of it figured out. But I haven't read "The Maiden Who Wanders the Planet", so I couldn't know all the details. I did know that Aeris and Zack were romantically involved, I did know that Aeris didn't completely hate Tseng, and I do know that Aeris loved Cloud more than Zack. But all the things about her still watching him when she died, I didn't have any clue about that, aside from when she reaches for his hand at the end of the game. I do appreciate you clearing some of that up for me.

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the posts, I think I did get this info from wikipedia, but I think that there are alot of people like me out there that might have missed some info of the game or just may have forgotten! So if you already knew, great then help others understand the story with me because I'm still in the process of learning more. And Japan made some short stories of Aerith, Tifa, and Denzel I think (from advent children) but I'm glad I'm not the only one who's just now finding this information out! xd